Now we can make calls to regular telephone number via our trunk we want to setup a DID (Direct Inward Dial) number so that we can receive calls from people dialing a regular phone number. For this example I’m going to use a US number from IPKall who will provide a (free) US based telephone number. However, they are only able to do this due to a peculiarity in the law in certain states so I wouldn’t rely on the numbers being available in the future. Perfect for testing though! Singing up with IPKall First thing you need to do…

So we’ve got our trunk setup and now we need an extension so we can make a test call via the trunk. For testing I’m going to be using x-lite. A free sip softphone available for Windows and Linux from here. Adding an extension in FreePBX First we need to click on Extensions on the left hand main menu

In this series of articles I will run through how to get started once you get FreePBX setup. You will need to run through the articles in order as some of the later ones will rely on items set up in earlier articles. For a trunk (required to make calls to the outside world) I will use callwithus. Click here for a free account. Adding a trunk The main FreePBX menu is down the left hand side of the screen Click Trunks

For a few months now I have been backing up my server using rsync to some space at fxhbackup which is part of fusionxhost.com. The backups worked well and I never really had any problems. There was an issue with the control panel showing my disk usage incorrectly but I opened a ticket and they didn’t seem too bothered – and I wasn’t either as long as my backups carried on working. The only issue I really had with the service was trying to cancel it recently. I couldn’t find a link in my control panel, or on their website,…